Bestselling author Lisa Kessler interviews authors from every genre, shining a light on the stories, voices, and inspirations behind their books. Each week you’ll discover new reads, fresh perspectives, and the magic that keeps us turning pages. 🔦 Shining a light on good books
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Booking probability
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Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchBestselling author Lisa Kessler interviews authors from every genre, shining a light on the stories, voices, and inspirations behind their books. Each week you’ll discover new reads, fresh perspectives, and the magic that keeps us turning pages. 🔦 Shining a light on good books
Recent episodes include "Midlife and Magic with Author Deborah Wilde on Book Lights" (23 September 2026, 26 minutes), "Writing in Multiple Genres with Author Alison McBain on Book Lights" (23 September 2026, 24 minutes), and "The Magic of a Forest with Author Julie Carrick Dalton on Book Lights" (28 July 2026, 27 minutes).
Book Lights Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 358 episodes.
Booking probability for Book Lights Podcast is 44%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Book Lights Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Book Lights Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Book Lights Podcast are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Book Lights Podcast has an arts audience.
Book Lights Podcast is an arts show with 358 episodes published.
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Episode #20
Send us Fan Mail Deborah Wilde is a global wanderer and hopeless romantic. After twelve years as a screenwriter, she was also a total cynic with a broken edit button, so, she jumped ship, started writing funny, sexy...
Episode #21
Send us Fan Mail Alison McBain is an award-winning author with more than seventy short stories and poems published. She also serves as the Associate Editor at the magazine Scribes*MICRO*Fiction . And once in a while...
Episode #19
Send us Fan Mail Julie Carrick Dalton is the New England-based author of The Last Beekeeper, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Waiting for the Night Song , winner of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s...
Episode #18
Send us Fan Mail Katelyn Marie Peterson graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and has written freelance pieces for various newspapers. When she isn’t typing on her...
Episode #17
Send us Fan Mail Emily Carpenter is a bestselling author of suspense novels including Burying the Honeysuckle Girls , The Weight of Lies and Gothictown. Born and raised in Brimingham, Alabama, she graduated from Auburn...
Episode #16
Send us Fan Mail Lee Goldberg is a #1 NYT Bestselling author. He broke into television with a freelance script sale to "Spenser: For Hire." Since then, his TV writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of...
Episode #15
Send us Fan Mail Priya Parmar is the author of the novel, Vanessa and Her Sister , a New York Times Notable Book, as well as co-author of the musical, Sylvia (London Old Vic), nominated for the Olivier Award for Best...
Episode #14
Send us Fan Mail T.K. Bush, a seasoned radiographic/cardiovascular technologist with more than two decades of medical experience, has also been a prolific writer since childhood. Married, with a blended family of 4...
Episode #13
Send us Fan Mail Robert Bailey is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Boomerang as well as the Jason Rich series ( Rich Justice , Rich Waters , and Rich Blood ), the Bocephus Haynes series ( The Wrong Side...
Episode #12
Send us Fan Mail Ben Leman is a businessman, rancher, and fourth-generation Texan whose appetite for adventure has carried him from the remote wilderness of Alaska to elk hunts in the mountain West and travels across...
Episode #11
Send us Fan Mail J. M. Shaw is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction who lives in Alberta with her husband and two young children. She’s been writing since childhood, building worlds from raw imagination and quiet...
Episode #10
Send us Fan Mail Jocie is the author of over twenty novels, and hundreds of articles. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in numerous national magazines, and online blogs. She worked several jobs before landing her...
Episode #9
Send us Fan Mail USA Today bestselling author, Dragon nominee, and award-winning journalist, Jeffery H. Haskell, lives and breathes writing. A passion of his from a young age, he can’t remember a time when he wasn’t...
Episode #8
Send us Fan Mail USA Today Bestselling author, Sonali Dev, writes Bollywood-style love stories that let her explore issues faced by women around the world while still indulging her faith in a happily ever after...
Episode #7
Send us Fan Mail Kaira Rouda is an award–winning USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author of contemporary fiction that explores what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Reviews have touted her...
Episode #6
Send us Fan Mail Liisa Kovala is an award-winning Finnish-Canadian author and book coach. Her most recent historical novel, Like Water for Weary Souls, won a Global Book Award for women's fiction. Surviving Stutthof...
Episode #5
Send us Fan Mail Romance author Maria Jane believes in the power of love. She sees that love may look messy and take a winding path, but there is magic in the journey. Her books are filled with fun moments, sweet...
Episode #4
Send us Fan Mail Jennifer Lieberman is from Maple, Ontario Canada and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from York University in Toronto. Jennifer has appeared in over thirty stage productions in Toronto, New York...
Episode #3
Send us Fan Mail Wendy Walker is the USA Today Best Selling author of the psychological suspense novels Blade, All Is Not Forgotten , Emma In the Night , The Night Before , Don’t Look For Me, What Remains, American Girl...
Episode #2
Send us Fan Mail Andrew Givler is the author of The Debt Collection & Ironbound series. He is also a gaming YouTuber known as Sigils with over 1.4 Million subscribers. He loves making people laugh, video games, and...
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